Scaling Outreach with Few-Shot Prompting and Personalized Context
Important note: This training may demonstrate AI tools that are not approved for use with Stanford data. Inclusion in this session does not imply institutional approval. Participants should refrain from entering Stanford data into unapproved tools. An up-to-date list of approved and reviewed tools is available on the GenAI Evaluation Matrix page.
| Code | Date | Delivery | Cost |
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| ITSB-1014 |
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Live Online : 1 session | $150 |
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Explore how Few-Shot prompting enables AI to generate personalized outreach at scale. Practice providing examples of your best messages so AI produces variations that preserve your tone and intent.
- Program Description
Few-Shot prompting gives AI a set of your own high-quality examples before asking it to generate new content, resulting in outputs that sound like you rather than generic AI. This session focuses on applying that technique to outreach and communications, helping participants generate large volumes of on-brand messages without sacrificing personalization or nuance.
- Learning Objectives
Learners will have the opportunity to:
1. Explore how Few-Shot prompting works and why it outperforms standard prompts for writing tasks
2. Practice selecting and formatting examples that effectively train AI on your voice
3. Work with Few-Shot techniques to generate personalized outreach at scale
4. Experiment with prompts that preserve tone, nuance, and context across variations
5. Build a reusable Few-Shot template for a communications workflow you use regularly- Topic Outline
Topics:
- How Few-Shot prompting works
- Selecting and curating effective training examples
- Building personalized outreach prompts
- Scaling output while preserving tone and nuance
- Creating reusable Few-Shot templates for ongoing useTools used: Stanford AI Playground and free versions of other AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude)
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